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336 A Chinese Biographical Dictionary the defences of which city he brought to a state of efficiency and so saved it firom the riolenoe of the Tartar inTaders. Upon his retirement he settled down in his old home, and was soon sorronnded bj disciples. Besides many miscellaneoos writings, he contributed largely to Chn Hsi's commentary on the Boot of Rites, He was canonised as ^ ^, and in 1724 his tablet was placed in the Confucian Temple.

Huang K'ang (T. ;^ g )• 10th cent. A.D. A native of Pn-ch'eng in Fnhkien, who at the age of fifteen produced such beautiful poetry as to attract the notice of several leading men of the day. He was quite dwarfish in stature, and unceremonious to the verge of rudeness, though at the same time a most refined writer. His works were published posthumously by his fellow-townsmen under the title of j^ j^ ^.

Huang Mei Wêng. 2nd cent. B.G. An old man with yellow eyebrows, who told Tung-fising So that he lived on air, changed his bones and washed his marrow, cast his skin and cut his hair, once in 3,000 years; and that he had done these things three times already.

Huang Pa (T. 3^^). Died E.G. 51. A native of Honan, who rose to high office under the Emperor Wu Ti of the Han dynasty. His career however was a chequered one. Under the Emperor Hsflan Ti he was thrown into prison and condemned to death, but was ultimately re-instated and presented with a carriage- umbrella of honour ten feet in height, as a mark of Imperial esteem. He strove to govern with humanity; and in his own jurisdiction he very much mitigated the severity of the putiishments then in vogue. On one occasion, when Governor of Ying-ch^uan in Anhui, he was advised to get rid of an old official servant, named g^ ^ Hsfl Ch*6ng, who was quite deaf. "Oh no," he replied; "the man can kneel down and get up; he can show